Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 27, 2020

If you’re pitching, selling or proposing a partnership, you want to find out what will spark the other person’s interest so that they can’t help but want to work with you. It’s because you just haven’t pitched your products or services to solve their problems. I have held back because I place more value on the relationship.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 29, 2023

It can be tempting to use lofty language, but we’ve found it more constructive to focus the conversation on traction. We aim to lead with the data and let the numbers support bold ambitions. We helped them refine their pitch to emphasize not only the innovation but also the market potential, scalability, and revenue model.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

Move on, keep looking and find people who are truly supportive, on your terms. What about pitch competitions that sound like Ancient Roman death matches? They do, and I'll join these events, but when you name your pitch event after something violent, you shouldn't be surprised when you've gotten way more men to apply.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Siteline is building fintech infra for the construction market : While the consumer fintech space is chock-full of tools for what feels like any and every use case, the business world is a little bit different. Promise, a startup, aims to sit between you and the government, offering more flexible payment plans for bills. I kinda dig it.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

How they managed to rally other ecosystem stakeholders into supporting these efforts. What advice the initiators have for other ecosystems looking to hire a professional ecosystem builder. We wanted to know how Eva, Diana and Alexis managed to rally the key stakeholders to come together and support the role of an ecosystem builder.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2023

Prominent investors include a slew of a16z partners such as Marc Andreessen, Andrew Chen and Chris Dixon, as well as entrepreneur Ev Williams, icon Paris Hilton and support from investors Ryan Hoover and Cleo Capital’s Sarah Kunst. Amazing advice for anyone who is a student or just … new. Eduardo Saverin’s B Capital raised $2.1

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In many cases, based on our interactions with thousands of founders in the Draftbit Community , success seems to come down to how well they enlist the support of those first mobile app users. There’s an old adage that says, “ask for money and you’ll get advice; ask for advice and you might get money.” Put down the build tools!

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2023

I’ve written more about “why now” in the context of pitching elsewhere , but it’s interesting to see that surface. There’s a stark change: Investors are spending 60% more time on the financials section of a pitch deck compared to a year ago. Decks are getting shorter; last year, the average successful deck had 19 slides.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2023

As The TechCrunch team sat through hundreds of startup pitches during YC’s biannual Demo Day, the backdrop of change was certainly noted. Now, even if valuations have not come down for some YC startups, some of the aforementioned advice has been taken, specifically around the slowdown that will be felt for international companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2010

I was WAY off between my book research about what the engineering & construction market would want (my first company) and what they actually wanted. And you need to watch them pitch. Tags: Startup Advice. Repeat this process 50 times and trust me you’ll see patterns. I only found out through customer meetings.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When facing the challenges of starting a business, a founder needs to be resourceful—and that includes having a network of contacts who are supportive and available to help. Seek out financial advice because it takes time to improve a score. Assistance can be obtained from companies such as Credit Karma, myFico and others.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The mission is the elevator pitch. And one of my biggest advice to those folks is, look, presumably, we all have the technical and functional skill set for this job. There’s a certain way to do this that is constructive and that actually adds to the process rather than causes friction and problems.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2023

Over explanation and adjective use was probably the most common tip I received when asking for advice on how to be a better prompter. And if you feel like supporting me extra, subscribe to my personal (and free!) Speakers include Techstars’ Kerty Levy , Construct Capital’s Dayna Grayson and NFX’s James Currier. Ask for help.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I had very little cash in the bank yet the stories were still coming out about how we were going to change the world of online engineering and construction. Our existing investors supported us and a new lead came in. I stopped doing conferences, traveling or pitching to VCs. Tags: Start-up Advice Startup Advice.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

“But most of all, he will go out of his way to help newcomers (as well as veterans) of the Austin tech scene whenever they need help or advice or counsel,” Forrest said. “We We like to say that the Central Texas ecosystem is much more supportive of each other than a lot of other places. Whurley pitched him to invest in the company.

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